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Week 12 (Apr 1-5)

Lecture 19-20

• Experimental Demonstration of Free-Space Decoy-State Quantum Key Distribution over 144 km, T. Schmitt-Manderbach et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010504 (2007) [pdf]
• Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution over 200 km, Y.-L. Tang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 190501 (2014) [pdf]
• Secure Quantum Key Distribution over 421 km of Optical Fiber, A. Boaron et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 190502 (2018) [pdf]

Week 11 (Mar 25-29)

Lecture 18

• Quantum Cryptography: from Theory to Practice, H.-K. Lo and N. Lutkenhaus, arXiv:quant-ph/0702202v3 (2007) [pdf]

Lecture 17

• Dense Coding in Experimental Quantum Communication, K. Mattle et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 25 (1996) [pdf]
• Communication via One- and Two-Particle Operators on Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen States, C. Bennett and S. Wiesner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 20 (1992) [pdf]
• Advances in quantum teleportation, S. Pirandola et al., Nature Photonics 9 (2015) [pdf]

Week 10 (Mar 18-22)

Week 9 (Mar 11-15)

Lecture 16

• Nonlocality for Two Particles without Inequalities for Almost All Entangled States, L. Hardy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 11 (1993) [pdf]
• Quantum non-locality based on finite-speed causal influences leads to superluminal signalling, J-D. Bancal et al., Nature Physics 8 (2012) [pdf]
• Optimal frequency measurements with maximally correlated states, J.J . Bollinger, W.M. Itano, and D.J. Wineland, Phys. Rev. A 54, 6 (1996) [pdf]
• Nonlocality beyond quantum mechanics, S. Popescu, Nature Physics 10 (2014) [pdf]

Lecture 15

• Bell's Inequality, handout [pdf]
• EARLY HISTORY OF BELL'S THEOREM THEORY AND EXPERIMENT, J. Clauser [pdf]
• Closing the Door on Einstein and Bohr's Quantum Debate, A. Aspect, Physics 8, 123 (2015) [pdf]

Week 8 (Mar 4-8)

Week 7 (Feb 25 - Mar 1)

Lecture 14

• Generation of Fock states in a superconducting quantum circuit, M. Hofheinz et al., Nature Letters 454 (2008) ( [pdf]

Lecture 13

• Nondestructive Detection of an Optical Photon, A. Reiserer, S. Ritter, and G. Rempe, Science 342 (2013) [pdf]

Week 6 (Feb 18-22)

Lecture 11-12

• Colloquium: Manipulating quantum entanglement with atoms and photons in a cavity, J. M. Raimond, M. Brune, and S. Haroche, Reviews of Modern Physics 73 (2001) [pdf]

Week 5 (Feb 11-15)

Lecture 9-10

• Quantum Zeno effect, W.M. Itano et al., Physical Review A 41(5), 2295 (1989) [pdf]
• Acceleration of quantum decay processes by frequent observations, A. G. Kofman and G. Kurizki, Nature 405 (2000) [pdf]
• Schmidt Decomposition, handout [pdf]

Week 4 (Feb 4-8)

Lecture 7-8

• Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion (handout), Yariv "Quantum Electronics" [pdf]
• Observation of Interference Between Two Bose Condensates, M. R. Andrews, C. G. Townsend, H.-J. Miesner, D. S. Durfee, D. M. Kurn, W. Ketterle, Science 275, 637 (1997) [pdf]
• Quantum effects in one-photon and two-photon interference, L. Mandel, Reviews of Modern Physics 71 (2), S274 (1999) [pdf]
• Quantum Optical Tests of Complementarity , M. Scully, Nature 351, 111 (1991) [pdf]

Week 3 (Jan 29 - Feb 1)

Lecture 6

• Measurement of the quantum state of squeezed light , G. Breitenbach et al., Nature 387 (1997) [pdf]
• Observation of Squeezed Light with 10-dB Quantum-Noise Reduction, H. Vahlbruch et al., PRL 100, 033602 (2008) [pdf]
• A Quantum Laser Pointer, N. Treps et al.,Science 301 (2003) [pdf]
• THE QUANTUM ENHANCED LIGO DETECTOR SETS NEW SENSITIVITY RECORD, flyer by LIGO Scientific Collaboration [pdf]

Lecture 5

• Squeezed states of light, tutorial by M.C. Teich and B.E.A. Saleh, Quantum Opt. 1, 152-191 (1989) [pdf]
• Measuring the quantum mechanical wave function, tutorial by M.G. Raymer, Contemporary Physics 38 (5), 343-355 (1997) [pdf]

Week 2 (Jan 21-25)

Lecture 4

• Comparison of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect for bosons and fermions, T. Jeltes et al., Nat. Letters 445, 402 (2007) [pdf]
• Photon-antibunching and sub-Poissonian photon statistics, X.T. Zou and L. Mandel, Phys. Rev. A 41 (1), (1989) [pdf]
• Glauber Paper: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 [pdf]

Lecture 3

• High-performance semiconductor quantum-dot single-photon sources, P. Senellart et al., Nat. Nanotech. 12, 1026 (2017) [pdf]
• (FYI: Semiconductor quantum light sources, A. Shields, Nature Photonics 1, 215 (2007) [pdf] )
• On-Demand Single Photons with High Extraction Efficiency and Near-Unity Indistinguishability from a Resonantly Driven Quantum Dot in a Micropillar, X Ding et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 020401 (2016) [pdf]

Week 1 (Jan 14-18)

Lecture 2

• Wave-particle duality of C60 molecules, M. Arndt et al., Nature 401, 680 (2014) [pdf]

Lecture 1

• Alpha derivation handout [pdf]
• Collisions of Light with Atoms, P. A. Franken, Atomic Physics, Proceedings of the First International Conference held 3-7 June, 1968 in New York City. Edited by Vernon W. Hughes, Benjamin Bederson, Victor W. Cohen, and Francis M. Pichanick. New York: Plenum Press, 1969., p.377 [pdf]
• Experimental Realization of Wheeler’s Delayed-Choice Gedanken Experiment, V. Jaques et al., Science 315, 966 (2007) [pdf]
• Experimental Evidence for a Photon Anticorrelation Effect on a Beam Splitter: New Light on Single-Photon Interferences, P. Grangier, G. Roger and A. Aspec, Europhys. Lett. 1, 173 (1986) [pdf]